Not to be confused with the game show of the same name, “Robot Wars” is a seriously bad sci-fi flick. The robots might look alright but everything else is so cheap and tacky that it makes this movie look and feel like a terrible episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and even that seems to generous.

You might hope that a significant portion of this movie involves giant robots fighting one another but instead, the vast majority of the picture is about some significantly bland futuristic world that makes the universe of “Dune” look interesting. I couldn’t really explain the plot, it was just pretty nonsensical and you’re just sitting there waiting for the occasional shot of the robots.

The characters in this movie are unbelievably dull. I didn’t care about anybody in this movie and everybody was just a distraction from what I came to see, which is of course the robots. The robots themselves are not overly creative but the effects for them are surprisingly good in comparison to the awful look of the rest of the movie. It’s a shame that we don’t get to see a lot of them and they only really do anything in the final scene.

Few sci-fi movies are as mind-numbing to sit through as “Robot Wars”. At least “Alien 3” and “Ultraviolet” aren’t as boring to sit through as this film. The poster I saw for this movie saw two robots battling each other in the desert, the movie did deliver that image but boy did you have to wait for it and it wasn’t worth it. It is absolutely shocking that “Robot Wars” made it to theatres considering its short runtime and lousy special effects that make it comparable to 1990 version of “Captain America”. Those that whine about the “Star Wars” prequels have obviously never had to endure a sci-fi film as bad as “Robot Wars”.